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Thank you to everyone who has participated in the current Exchange Insta Poll.  You have identified the topics that you would most like to see addressed in future issues of Exchange and ExchangeEveryDay.  These topics will be given high priority as we develop the editorial calendar for next year.  If you have not yet expressed your opinions we invite you to do so in the next few days.

Two of the topics that rated in your top ten were "nature education" and "running a green program." In a recent Exchange article (which can be viewed in its entirety for free on our web site),"The color green: A ‘go’ for peace education," Ruth Wilson talked not only about going green and nature education, but also about how this all relates to peace education....

"‘Going Green’ is a term often used in reference to environmentally-responsible practices applied to many different contexts, such as transportation, building construction, and water conservation. ‘Going Green’ can also be used in the context of peace education, as there are strong relationships between education for peace and education for environmental sustainability.  

"The ‘Green Approach’ to peace education focuses on helping children care about the natural world in their own community. There are reasons to believe that once children learn to respect and care for plants and animals with which they are familiar they are more likely to develop a sense of caring and respect for other people as well."

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Exchange has a wide variety of resources on environments that can be purchased separately on altogether at a discounted price in our Environments Tool Kit.  Exchange environmental resources in the kit include...

Books:

• Caring Spaces, Learning Places: Children's Environments That Work
• Natural Playscapes: Creating Outdoor Play Environments for the Soul
• Learning With Nature Idea Book: Creating Nurturing Outdoor Spaces for Children

Beginning Workshop Units:

• Environments for Special Needs
• Environments
• Nature and Young Children
• Outdoor Environments
• Space
• Science, Using the Outdoors
• Learning Materials

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